Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-19
TALKING OF NEW MEXICO.



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| fFEcxoSIA RnLs-A PROMISED MINING sE,u ArioE-
no" 1Ak GOOD COWBOYS HAVE REKx siASpERxp.
| Col 10 Dwyer. the owner OF an extensive ranch
In New Mexico. and who Is well known In wash
ington, is In the city at present
| 81 came here" said Col Dwyer, when halted nv
| q STAR reporter and examined as TO the business
that brought him to the national capital eat the
instance OF the cattle growers Of Colorado ana
| New Mexico. They are much alarmed lest Con-
gress may fail 70 pass the pleuro- pneumonia bin
We must have some energetic and heroic action
on this measure. II Congress does not appropriate
money 70 reimburse the owners OF cattle when the
disease has foothod for the purpose OF Destroy
ing them, and thus stamp out this terrible disease
] it Is only question OF days and weeks when far.
| mers and dealers in fancy stocks viii ship their
thus innoculate our herds when once the disease
gets foothold there IL Will never be eradicated
ton We cannot quarantine ana isolate the dis
eased cattle, a. you can In the states. II took
to stamp out this on their smn fsTas sss
tie. You see how hard II win be for US on the
| large ranges OF this country
CATTLE AND LAND.
"How are cattle doing In New Aexicos- asDd
the reporter.
"Never better We have plenty OF grass and
water and the winter is mild Our calf crop was
pan o se ,.r Tns o1 only ss r hss g. com
our beef steers Cattle have never been SO low for
ten years but they win improve They cannot
let me say. young man, now is your time TO buy q
cattle ranch. Invest your surplus There n more
They. as say, were never 80 low and are bound 70
come up. Have there been any drawbacks 60 tho
has done US untold damage by his rulings ana his
thieves. NE and his cIaqusrs state that ninety per
oTc fron AZ rl.s e.
stopped emigration TO the territory and prevented
the Investment OF many thousands OF doliara they
there for the past two years and as . result have
indicted less than hundred persons OF ali the
settlers and with ali the courts and Jures In their
own hands nave not been able to secure single
what do you DO for fuel,-
'toh, we have an abundance OF coal cedar, pine
ana a. i non wooS SAD The colonel The latter
enough 70 read BY The tree produces nut simi ami.
there Sn plenty Of L al p.s Of sss
territory"
MINES AND SCHOOLS
'Minesi" said the colonel repeating the Ne
porter's inquiry. "Tnere win be q big mining
boom In the territory during the coming year.
The new machinery for reducing low grade ores
are making fortunes for these discarded mines,
1ch mines that WIN starte people OF the east e one
| OF these days Education7 We need the passage
Of the Blair bin 70 help US out Some portions Of
the Mexican people are fairly educated, but the
masses are not. They haven't a sufnciency OF
school money 70 keep our schools going ali the
year, and until recently have had no school sys-
TEN, but all this will come In time II we can get
financial aid from the federal government"
THE COWBOYS AND THE pEsPERApoEs
"How about lawlessness IN the territoryrv
ave have very little, considering that many bad
| characters from all over the country take refuge
! there. The Mexicans are q peaceabe people. No
more hospitable people exist any where They do
have some bad young men, but these can be found
everywhere. You frequently see In the papers
accounts or outrages and killings by the cowboys
The cowboys OF New Mexico will compare favor
ably with the farm boys In any state Most Of
| our troubles come from bad boys from the states;
boys who have been reading dime novels Three
OF the worst cases In our country come from the
northern states. Billy the Kid was q New York
city boy; Dan Rudebargh, from Ohio, ana Charley